The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-05-19

fresh and good and abundant, besides
milk and butter as good and as plenti-
full as can be found only in this country
where the price for the best butter is 10
cents and no purchasers can be found
at that figure. Late in the evening
we walked with Mr.. Veach, whom we
had known in Salem and had met a
good deal last year, to some fine springs
at the foot of the mountain, to get a |
good cool drink from an open spring, |
as / love to take before going to sleep. |
The next morning-Monday-we |
started to make the ascent of the Mig
ger Mountain This name of the
mountain is indeed not very poetical,
and does in no wise justice to the beauty
and majesty of this really beautiful
mountain. The name is variously ex-
planned. 1t probably dates back to
the time of the Revolutionary war,
when Tory families (with their attend
ant slaves, from S. CO., found refuge in
the fastnesses of this mountain. Only
the colored folks were seen going about,
hence, probaly the name. An effort
is bing made to change the name Mig
ger Mountain into "Park Mountain ;"
whether the effort will succeed, re-
mains to be seen. The name "Park
Mountain, by the way, does not to my
mind sufficiently express my idea of
the object either, hence [ almost prefer
the old, though quite unsuitable name,
''Nigger Mountain" which has GER
tainly the respectability of age and
popularity in its favor. Those who
have assembled the Pilot mountain
from the Cutler side, will understand
what the ascent of the Niger noun
tain from Jefferson is like, when | say
that in my opinion the latter ascent
equals at least one and half times the
former. On the whole, the two ascents
are very much alike, only with this
difference, that here, ON ascending the
Niger mountain we find an abund-
ance Of the best, the clearest and the
coldest water. Indeed we ascended
shortly after a long protracted wet
season, SO what we saw may not be
always the same. To us it seemed as
if the whole mountain was like a vast
sponge saturated with water, which
came oozing out and dripping out and
bubbling out wherever the edge of 9
stratum of rock was laid bare As we
had been all over the same mountain
one year ago, we felt pretty well al
home, though we were really quite
alone in that vast wilderness Like
the back Oft whale, the long stretched
mountain has three specially promin
ent points. What would correspond
to the head is formed by huge per
pendicular wall of rock right above
o Jefferson. You can almost look down
into the chimneys of the houses, anC
q if one were around with a parachute
! it seems it would be easy to let one
- self down right in front of the cour
= house below Some years ago large
q bowlder of rock did slip from thi
y side down the mountain for a con
siderable distance. 1t seems as if i
, might not have been impossible for i
v to roll into the town itself Beyono
: the town you see the long stretched
i Phoenix mountain and several mali
h roads branching out into the countr,
Is round is base-one of them leadin!
o. north -easterly to the new healin.
z springs, about seven miles distant
IS Looking to the west and south you Sc
4 close below the mountain with won
: derful distinctness the whole length o
" the road leading from Jefferson t
3 Hami.ton's mills about four mile
:. away. And there are the store am
n mill and the dwelling house of ou
,f friend r. Hamilton themselves, easil
+ seen and recognized. Beyond tina
is road, and in fact all round, there
! no end of mountains, noticeable bein
IF especially the Paddy mountain, nea
# opposite, and the large Three-To
r. mount at greater distance. The mic
# die elevation of the Niger mountain
.. which forms as it were the high bac
# of the whale, is its highest point.
# into Manufactured articles at Home.
&c From the Greensboro Ne,os.
n A portion of the cargo of the steame
Y. Defiance, which sailed recently for Bait
a more, consisted of thirty tons of wood pull
/. 10000 wood plates and 1000 wood dishe
n So says the NewBerne Journal of recer
le date While eastern North Carolina ha
~ long been an exporter of cotton, tar an
L ship stufs, it is but recently that she h;
80 begun to export such articles as are name
r above. 1t is a good thing to export our III
n - Io+k Il